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marijuana penaltiesiill
By Tam,Lee
The Nebraska Legisjatufedjiesay failed by five
votes to advance 4vtwlSfi,1e''$ossession of
small amounts of marijuana a civil, rather than a criminal
offense.
LB187, sponsored by Sen. John DeCamp of Neligh,
also would classify use of tobacco by minors, public in
toxification and minors in possesion of alcohol as civil of
fenses, or "infractions" of the law.
A drug or alcohol education program would be re
quired on a first infraction by minors and a second infrac
tion by adults. The bills was defeated on a 20-20 vote.
nrfs-laritf ftfw e'nfbrcrn&nt agencies
would save considerable tirrie arid money under this sys-
Decamp said the
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tern because violtfSoii would not have to aDDear ifi court.
lice also wouiaftjeinoretime to concentrate on telon
and "hard drujisefS," argued Sen. .Roland Luedtke of
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Lincoln.
DeCamp said he&rtrbably will bring the bill back next
week with amendmeritsvto require a setfine for marijuana
possession. The billTiow carries'' a fine eT up to $100 for
the" first offense, up to $200 for the second offense and
up to $300 for the third offense.
Citations similar to those issued for minor traffic vio
lations would be issued for all infractions. Violators would
not have to appear in court unless they wanted to appeal
the citation, DeCamp said.
An infraction system would penalize more offenders
than the present system, he said. Currently, only a few of
those caught are convicted to save the court's money,
DeCamp said.
Sen. Patrick Venditte of Omaha, a long-time opponent
of lowering marijuana possession penalties, said the bill
was hastily drawn up and should be sent back to the Judi
ciary Committee for a public hearing.
When the bill first was heard in the committee, it did
not contain provisions to decriminalize public drunken
ness, minors in possession, or minors using tobacco.
"This bill waters down the marijuana law to the point
of condoningdrug use," Venditte said.
DeCamp said the current marijuana Jaws -are. "a joke",
and are-not enforced. " - -x -"
"lei's either can the'laws or put sme meaning into
them," DeCamp said. .-' - . -
Photo by Ted Kirk
Sen. John DeCamp sponsored a bill lowering the
penalties for possession of small amounts of mari
juana which failed to advance in the Legislature
Wednesday.
Unpaid, tuition leads to class cancellation
No fee lor pass-fail
The Daily Nebraskan incorrectly reported that a
$5 fee is charged to change a course tdor from pass
fail. No fee is assessed. The deadline to change
spring semester classes is Friday. Forms are available
in Administration 207.
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Students who have not paid their second semester tui
tion may find their regfstrafrbns canceled.
Robert Clark, -tlNL diitctT.tT student accounts, said
students who diay,feir tuition by Feb. 15 were
assessed a $10 lanrim penalty and those who have
not paid after lMi22may be subject to cancellation.
Clark sMNl!i$$a Records Office
is authorized. 10. cancel the registration of delinquent tui
tion payments and students are not being reinstated
for second semester classes once their tuition is paid.
According to Clark, students still must pay their tui
tion costs, whether their registration is canceled or not.
He said that many accounts are turned over to collec
tion agencies.
"If students don't have the money, they need to go
somewhere and borrow money to meet the tuition dead
line," Clark said.
"Tuition and fees are not a means by which students
can receive financial assistance," he added. "Students
should seek loans from financial institutions or families
to secure enough money for their tuition payments."
Clark said tuition payments actually are due and
payable on the first day of classes, however the university
extends the deadline to the middle of the fifth week of
classes of each semester.
Research dollars finance
myriad of UNL projects
By Gail Stork
Some of last year's S9.8 million in re
search money provided by agencies outside
the university is being used by UNL re
searchers to fight cancer. Some of it is
chanelled toward investigation of solar
energy and some is being used to study the
evolutionary gene differentiation in chic
kens. Research titles like "Piezomodulation
spectroscopy of molecular crystals" or "In
vestigations of Foliar Fungal Pathogens of
Juniperus SPP" in process at UNL tell the
average person nothirrg, according to
Robert Rutford, vice chancellor for re
search and graduate studies.
Although Rutford admitted some of the
research titles seem far-fetched, he said
proposals would not be financed in the
nationwide competition for research mon
ey if they were not sound.
Almost all money for research comes
from federal and state governmental agen
cies and departments, industries and foun
dations, Rutford said.
However, the university is required to
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make a contribution,-he said. The amount
usually is less than 5 percent of the re
search cost, he said, and consists primarily
of secretarial or student help for the re
searcher. Rutford said research proposals must be
cleared by the respective department, the
college dean's office and the research ad
ministration office before it is sent to com
pete for agency funds.
The research administration office then
checks the proposal's procedural aspects,
making sure the budget is complete and all
possibilities are included.
Rutford said more than 900 UNL re
search proposals have made it through this
assembly line and now are being financed.
At $500,000 a year, the Ross Ice Shelf
is one of the most expensive. The project
attempted to drill a hole in an Antarctic ice
shelf to examine the ice core. for historical
data.
Rutford said people also are doing re
search on $500 awarded by a foundation
and pointed to a thick computer list of re
search projects of various amounts.
The list includes research on firemen,
weed control, alcohol programs, irriga
tion, hog house design, housing and pocket
gopher control. Rutford said the funding
agencies for these projects audit researchers
often to prevent, any misuse of the money.
Rutford said the number of proposals
from UNL faculty members has doubled in
the past two years, which partly account
for the yearly increase in research funds
awarded to UNL.
"The faculty is the most important key
in the whole business of obtaining outstate
funds," Rutford said. "The effort has to
come from the faculty. I can't write them
proposals
Rutford said it is his job to encourage
research and match people with ideas to
people with money.
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